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Fifteen Years

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So predictably, far from satisfying anyone, Mahmood’s proposals have opened up space even further to the right for people to indulge their most deranged anti-immigration obsessions. Where does she go from here? Seek to match them in a gruesome auction of cruelty she can never win?

damn new organized crime revenue stream just dropped

Praise Amazon for raising this service from the dead Opinion: The hardest part is admitting you were wrong, which AWS did.

Give Amazon credit for reversing course when confronted with new information: www.theregister.com/2025/11/24/p...

so if i understand this correctly, gaines has made her career by publicly calling trans athletes predators and threats to women while completely failing to ever mention even once that her mentor/college swimming coach was sexually assaulting and harassing women on the team while she was there?

Targeting Kelly is one of those “this is why we’ll win” moments, bc it shows how politically impetuous this admin is.

There’s clearly no adult in the room to say “wait, maybe don’t go after the charismatic war hero turned literal astronaut who ran after his wife was a victim of political violence.”

Cannot overstate how, from my perch as a national-security reporter, this would have been an earth-shattering scandal in a prior era.

The military has a duty to refuse unlawful orders, but Congress has a duty to remove from office a president and secretary who would issue such orders. There is something off about members of Congress talking about the former while refusing to say the latter, the part that's actually their job here.

Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.

BBC Bosses Draw Up Plans to Win Over Reform Voters by Changing News and Drama Output The Director General Tim Davie and other executives discussed altering BBC “story selection” in order to secure the "trust" of supporters of Nigel Farage’s party

BBC Chair Samir Shah and Robbie Gibb asked to explain why they drew up a plan, as revealed by Byline Times, to win back the "trust" of Reform voters, but haven't made similar plans for voters of any other party.

Gibb says Reform voters least likely to trust the BBC bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...

Tim Davie misled audience about the BBC’s supposed leftwing agenda | Good Law Project Speaking at a book festival, the former director general suggested the BBC newsroom was full of BLM T-shirts and Kamala mugs. But that’s fake news.

"The former BBC director general Tim Davie misled the public in suggesting BBC news reporters had a leftwing political agenda, Good Law Project can reveal." goodlaw.social/vyyj

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

Except that "agentic search" is "it mostly kinda does something close to what you want, but in an uncontrollable and potentially inefficient way" rather than "the thing you asked for"!

America’s Polarization Has Become the World's Side Hustle The 'psyops' revealed by X are entirely the fault of the perverse incentives created by social media monetization programs.

The 'psyops' revealed by X are entirely the fault of the perverse incentives created by social media monetization programs.

Seen a lot of people wondering why X, The Everything App would have a feature that gives away how much of the popular right wing accounts are foreign actors and this is why. They thought every left wing account would be that way because every accusation is also a confession.

"the funniest thing I can think of is getting my horrible machine to say slurs at random people at a party"

what an utter wasteland this man's mind is, no wonder JCO got to him so badly

Asked again and again whether he ever racially abused his fellow pupils, as 20 people at his old school have now said he did, Nigel Farage will only say that he never did so in a "hurtful way" or "with intent"

thinking about how my parents escaped vietnam, where the CIA destabilized my family's home country by spreading misinformation, and they landed in the united states, which is now getting destabilized bc someone in vietnam is spreading misinformation

Scene from Men in Black: top: Alien in drone head says "To prevent war, the galaxy is on Orion's belt" middle: Alien nods off bottom: Alien says "Fuck, I should have said collar. Orion is the cat behind you. That was unnecessarily confusing. Sorry, i'm just so fuckin' high"

Men in Black (1997)

For more than a decade now the government’s answer to how to fund universities has been to make money from overseas students.

The last lot then tried to discourage students from coming here.

This lot just want the money back.

But then how do we fund ourselves?

Crazy.

"shake to summarize" thanks firefox. just build the endumbening technology right in. why even write anything when the browser has a zero-click shortcut to put it through a blender and turn it into an idiot smoothie. the shortcut is even literally shaking. fuck you

Windows 98 Control Panel had everything we need

Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

It remains insane to me that DOGE was treated at the time as an impressive shock and awe accomplishment - “you can’t deny he’s getting stuff done!” - and then instantly memory holed by the press once if became clear it was a total failure by every possible standard including Musk’s own

this technology that i cant even get my own employees to use without literally threatening them is definitely going to be profitable one day

A Twitter account called Ivanka News tweets an AI image of a young woman wearing Muslim garb. The woman is holding a sign that says "I came here illegally. Should I be deported?" Ivanka News writes: What is your response to this person ?? In the "About this account" tab, it appears the account is based in Nigeria

An account called MAGA scope writes: Who, in your view is the great enemy of the United States? Communism, Islam, Democratic Party, or Satan? The account is based in Nigeria.

An account called MAGA Nadine writes: You go to work and find this. What would you do? The attached pic is an AI image that shows a microwave. The microwave has a sign that says "For religious reasons, this microwave is now making halal food only." The account is based in Morocco.

An account called America First posts an AI image of Tulsi Gabbard. They wrote: How would you rate your trust in Tulsi Gabbard on a scale of 1-10?

Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.

My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.

Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege - The Economic Times Meta reportedly halted internal research into the mental health impacts of Facebook and Instagram after finding causal evidence of harm. Internal documents revealed users reported lower depression and...

“Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a lawsuit by U.S. school districts against Meta and other social media platforms.”

It's a sign of how insane the news cycle is these days that this historic failure of government policy got just one day of news coverage this week. Not saying that's right or wrong, but it's astonishing how quickly the agenda moves on these days. , Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social • 2d BREAKING: UK's response to Covid was "too little too late". Acting faster could have saved 23,000 lives in England according to the public inquiry. Boris Johnson presided over a "toxic, sexist, chaotic culture" in No10, where rule-breaking seriously undermined public confidence.

Exactly the same as the Iraq Inquiry though: straight in the bin and never spoken of again, not least because none of it would’ve happened this way without the close, hand-in-glove cooperation of the British press. Don’t want to look to hard at that stuff.